Distributive justice, procedural justice, exemplarity, and employees' willingness to cooperate in M&A integration processes: An analysis of the Air France-KLM merger

Human Resource Management

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 809-837

  Melkonian, Tessa ^a   Monin, Philippe ^a   Noorderhaven, Niels G ^b  

^a EMLYON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behavioral exemplarity; Distributive justice; Fairness heuristics theory; Mergers and acquisitions; Procedural justice; Willingness to cooperate

Indexed keywords

EID: 82155165966     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.20456     Document Type: Article

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